Word: backgrounders
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...Harvard--seemed like the obvious choice, but his reputation for being a natural second-in-command weakened his chances. And though they were popular at Harvard, government department prodigy McGeorge Bundy was only 34 years old and therefore considered too young, scientist Paul Doty came from the same academic background as Conant--and the Corporation viewed Finley as too much of a gentlemanly humanist...
...BACKGROUND: An American dream personified. A stray of mixed parentage, she was rescued by the Gores and has triumphed over her humble beginnings...
...BACKGROUND: Inside the Beltway from birth. The son of George and Barbara Bush's pet Millie, Spot was born in the White House...
...implantable hearing device. With none forthcoming, he developed one himself. Vibrant Soundbridge is an external processor linked to a skull-mounted internal receiver. Unlike standard hearing aids, which merely amplify sound, the Soundbridge directly vibrates the bones in the middle ear for a more natural sound quality that clarifies background noise and nearly eliminates feedback...
Both Gold and Card have this aim in mind, but there the similarities end. Gold is deeply tanned, ponytailed and fast talking, with a background in experimental music and toy design. His group has spent the past couple of years dreaming up utterly outlandish text-display inventions like Speeder Reader. There's the Tilty Table, a vast and thin computer screen on shock absorbers that you tilt in any direction to scroll through a document that would in real life be 30 ft. across; Listen Reader, which uses tiny embedded computer chips to produce different ambient sounds on each page...